De Academy Award voor beste film (Engels: Academy Award for Best Picture, ook bekend als de Oscar voor beste film) is een jaarlijkse filmprijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Het is een van de belangrijkste Academy Awards, voor de beste film van het voorgaande jaar. Welke films daarvoor in aanmerking komen wordt bepaald door mensen die werkzaam zijn in de filmindustrie. Uiteindelijk worden, vanaf 2010, maximaal tien titels bekendgemaakt die zijn genomineerd voor de prijs. Tijdens de jaarlijkse uitreiking wordt bekendgemaakt welke van deze titels de prijs wint. De Oscar wordt vanaf de ceremonie van 1952 uitgereikt aan de producent(en) van de film, voor die tijd werd de prijs toegekend aan de filmstudio. De eerste twee uitreikingen heette de prijs Outstanding Picture, daarna Outstanding Production en driemaal Outstanding Motion Picture. Vanaf de ceremonie van 1945 heette de categorie Best Motion Picture, sinds de ceremonie in 1963 heet de prijs simpelweg Best Picture, beste film.
Winnaars en genomineerden De winnaars staan bovenaan in vette letters op een gele achtergrond. De overige films en filmmaatschappijen of producenten die werden genomineerd staan eronder vermeld in alfabetische volgorde.The Official Academy Awards Database
1927-1929 De prijs voor "Unieke en artistieke film" (Unique and Artistic Picture) is eenmalig uitgereikt, tijdens de eerste ceremonie. Jaar Film Filmstudio 1927-28 Beste film Wings Paramount Famous Lasky The Racket The Caddo Company 7th Heaven Fox Unieke en artistieke film Sunrise Fox Chang Paramount Famous Lasky The Crowd Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1928-29De nominaties waren niet vooraf bekendgemaakt, tijdens de uitreiking werden alleen de winnaars bekendgemaakt. Op basis van interne gegevens is achteraf bepaald welke films door de juryleden in beraad waren genomen. The Broadway Melody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Alibi Feature Productions Hollywood Revue Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In Old Arizona Fox The Patriot Paramount Famous Lasky
1930-1939 Jaar Film Filmstudio 1929-30 All Quiet on the Western Front Universal The Big House Cosmopolitan Disraeli Warner Bros. The Divorcee Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Love Parade Paramount Famous Lasky 1930-31 Cimarron RKO Radio East Lynne Fox The Front Page The Caddo Company Skippy Paramount Publix Trader Horn Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1931-32 Grand Hotel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Arrowsmith Samuel Goldwyn Productions Bad Girl Fox The Champ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Five Star Final First National One Hour with You Paramount Publix Shanghai Express Paramount Publix The Smiling Lieutenant Paramount Publix 1932-33A Farewell to Arms werd tweede, Little Women derde. Cavalcade Fox 42nd Street Warner Bros. A Farewell to Arms Paramount I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Warner Bros. Lady for a Day Columbia Little Women RKO Radio The Private Life of Henry VIII London Films She Done Him Wrong Paramount Smilin' Through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer State Fair Fox 1934The Barretts of Wimpole Street werd tweede, The House of Rothschild derde. It Happened One Night Columbia The Barretts of Wimpole Street Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cleopatra Paramount Flirtation Walk First National The Gay Divorcee RKO Radio Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros. The House of Rothschild 20th Century Imitation of Life Universal One Night of Love Columbia The Thin Man Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Viva Villa! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The White Parade Jesse L. Lasky 1935The Informer werd tweede, Captain Blood derde. Mutiny on the Bounty Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Alice Adams RKO Radio Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Captain Blood Cosmopolitan David Copperfield Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Informer RKO Radio Les Misérables 20th Century The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Paramount A Midsummer Night's Dream Warner Bros. Naughty Marietta Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ruggles of Red Gap Paramount Top Hat RKO Radio 1936 The Great Ziegfeld Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Anthony Adverse Warner Bros. Dodsworth Samuel Goldwyn Productions Libeled Lady Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbia Romeo and Juliet Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer San Francisco Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Story of Louis Pasteur Cosmopolitan A Tale of Two Cities Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Three Smart Girls Universal 1937 The Life of Emile Zola Warner Bros. The Awful Truth Columbia Captains Courageous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dead End Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Good Earth Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In Old Chicago 20th Century-Fox Lost Horizon Columbia One Hundred Men and a Girl Universal Stage Door RKO Radio A Star Is Born Selznick International Pictures 1938 You Can't Take It with You Columbia The Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros.-First National Alexander's Ragtime Band 20th Century-Fox Boys Town Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Citadel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Four Daughters Warner Bros.-First National Grand Illusion Réalisation d'art cinématographique Jezebel Warner Bros. Pygmalion Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Test Pilot Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1939 Gone with the Wind Selznick International Pictures Dark Victory Warner Bros.-First National Goodbye, Mr. Chips Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Love Affair RKO Radio Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Columbia Ninotchka Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Of Mice and Men Hal Roach Stagecoach Walter Wanger The Wizard of Oz Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Wuthering Heights Samuel Goldwyn Productions
1940-1949 Jaar Film Filmstudio 1940 Rebecca Selznick International Pictures All This, and Heaven Too Warner Bros. Foreign Correspondent Walter Wanger The Grapes of Wrath 20th Century-Fox The Great Dictator Charles Chaplin Productions Kitty Foyle RKO Radio The Letter Warner Bros. The Long Voyage Home Argosy-Wanger Our Town Sol Lesser The Philadelphia Story Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1941 How Green Was My Valley 20th Century-Fox Blossoms in the Dust Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Citizen Kane Mercury Here Comes Mr. Jordan Columbia Hold Back the Dawn Paramount The Little Foxes Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Maltese Falcon Warner Bros. One Foot in Heaven Warner Bros. Sergeant York Warner Bros. Suspicion RKO Radio 1942 Mrs. Miniver Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Invaders Ortus Kings Row Warner Bros. The Magnificent Ambersons Mercury The Pied Piper 20th Century-Fox The Pride of the Yankees Samuel Goldwyn Productions Random Harvest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Talk of the Town Columbia Wake Island Paramount Yankee Doodle Dandy Warner Bros. 1943 Casablanca Warner Bros. For Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount Heaven Can Wait 20th Century-Fox The Human Comedy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In Which We Serve Two Cities Madame Curie Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The More the Merrier Columbia The Ox-Bow Incident 20th Century-Fox The Song of Bernadette 20th Century-Fox Watch on the Rhine Warner Bros. 1944 Going My Way Paramount Double Indemnity Paramount Gaslight Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Since You Went Away Selznick International Pictures Wilson 20th Century-Fox 1945 The Lost Weekend Paramount Anchors Aweigh Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Bells of St. Mary's Rainbow Productions Mildred Pierce Warner Bros. Spellbound Selznick International Pictures 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Samuel Goldwyn Productions Henry V J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films It's a Wonderful Life Liberty Films The Razor's Edge 20th Century-Fox The Yearling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1947 Gentleman's Agreement 20th Century-Fox The Bishop's Wife Samuel Goldwyn Productions Crossfire RKO Radio Great Expectations J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild Miracle on 34th Street 20th Century-Fox 1948 Hamlet J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films Johnny Belinda Warner Bros. The Red Shoes J. Arthur Rank-Archers The Snake Pit 20th Century-Fox The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Warner Bros. 1949 All the King's Men Robert Rossen Productions Battleground Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Heiress Paramount A Letter to Three Wives 20th Century-Fox Twelve O'Clock High 20th Century-Fox
1950-1959 Jaar Film Filmstudio / Producent(en) 1950 All About Eve 20th Century-Fox Born Yesterday Columbia Father of the Bride Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer King Solomon's Mines Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sunset Blvd. Paramount 1951 An American in Paris Arthur Freed Decision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak en Frank McCarthy A Place in the Sun George Stevens Quo Vadis Sam Zimbalist A Streetcar Named Desire Charles K. Feldman 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Cecil B. DeMille High Noon Stanley Kramer Ivanhoe Pandro S. Berman Moulin Rouge Romulus Films The Quiet Man John Ford en Merian C. Cooper 1953 From Here to Eternity Buddy Adler Julius Caesar John Houseman The Robe Frank Ross Roman Holiday William Wyler Shane George Stevens 1954 On the Waterfront Sam Spiegel The Caine Mutiny Stanley Kramer The Country Girl William Perlberg Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Jack Cummings Three Coins in the Fountain Sol C. Siegel 1955 Marty Harold Hecht Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Buddy Adler Mister Roberts Leland Hayward Picnic Fred Kohlmar The Rose Tattoo Hal B. Wallis 1956 Around the World in 80 Days Michael Todd Friendly Persuasion William Wyler Giant George Stevens en Henry Ginsberg The King and I Charles Brackett The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Sam Spiegel 12 Angry Men Henry Fonda en Reginald Rose Peyton Place Jerry Wald Sayonara William Goetz Witness for the Prosecution Arthur Hornblow jr. 1958 Gigi Arthur Freed Auntie Mame Warner Bros. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lawrence Weingarten The Defiant Ones Stanley Kramer Separate Tables Harold Hecht 1959 Ben-Hur Sam Zimbalist Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger The Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens The Nun's Story Henry Blanke Room at the Top John Woolf en James Woolf
1960-1969 Jaar Film Producent(en) 1960 The Apartment Billy Wilder The Alamo John Wayne Elmer Gantry Bernard Smith Sons and Lovers Jerry Wald The Sundowners Fred Zinnemann 1961 West Side Story Robert Wise Fanny Joshua Logan The Guns of Navarone Carl Foreman The Hustler Robert Rossen Judgment at Nuremberg Stanley Kramer 1962 Lawrence of Arabia Sam Spiegel The Longest Day Darryl F. Zanuck Meredith Willson's The Music Man Morton Da Costa Mutiny on the Bounty Aaron Rosenberg To Kill a Mockingbird Alan J. Pakula 1963 Tom Jones Tony Richardson America, America Elia Kazan Cleopatra Walter Wanger How the West Was Won Bernard Smith Lilies of the Field Ralph Nelson 1964 My Fair Lady Jack L. Warner Becket Hal B. Wallis Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick Mary Poppins Walt Disney en Bill Walsh Zorba the Greek Michael Cacoyannis 1965 The Sound of Music Robert Wise Darling Joseph Janni Doctor Zhivago Carlo Ponti Ship of Fools Stanley Kramer A Thousand Clowns Fred Coe 1966 A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann Alfie Lewis Gilbert The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Norman Jewison The Sand Pebbles Robert Wise Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ernest Lehman 1967 In the Heat of the Night Walter Mirisch Bonnie and Clyde Warren Beatty Doctor Dolittle Arthur P. Jacobs The Graduate Lawrence Turman Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Stanley Kramer 1968 Oliver! John Woolf Funny Girl Ray Stark The Lion in Winter Martin Poll Rachel, Rachel Paul Newman Romeo and Juliet Anthony Havelock-Allan en John Brabourne 1969 Midnight Cowboy Jerome Hellman Anne of the Thousand Days Hal B. Wallis Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid John Foreman Hello, Dolly! Ernest Lehman Z Jacques Perrin en Ahmed Rachedi
1970-1979